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...lunch programs. He recalled sponsoring both the Women, Infants and Children Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Those achievements, he said without saying so explicitly, were his legacy. They embodied his belief that "government does a lot of good things," a line he sometimes dashed off on the stump at the end of one of his tortured, run-on sentences...
...stump those last days, Bob Dole's campaign was more local than national--the taped Sousa marches, the town bigwig at the mike vamping in front of an audience in elephant hats. Then Dole would come out from behind the stage, parting the polyester-blue curtain, and enact the body language of victory--thumb up, quick-flash smile, the arm that doesn't hold the pen punching the air in a go-get-'em arc. The crowd would always stand and applaud. "We love you, Bob!" someone would yell, and the unmuffled sound would echo too well, because the hall...
...action behind the scenes borrowed from chaos theory, Dole's performance on the stump has not been much better. He spent the week doing town meetings before kindly audiences handpicked by local Republican leaders. "Listening to America," the campaign called it, without a trace of irony. The questions were such softballs that even Dole joked about the crowd's "objectivity...
...unlike the 1946 parade, where local politicians delivered a round of stump speeches at the parade's end, this year's parade had no overt politicking--even in a presidential election year. Participating in the parade were State Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham '72 (D-Chelsea), State Senator Robert E. Travaglini (D-Cambridge) and U.S. Rep Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Cambridge), among others...
However, bigger-name speakers confirmed and slated to "stump" at the event thus far are Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.), a highly liberal, often controversial politician who is up for re-election this year, and David Wilhelm, a former chair of the Democratic National Committee and a current IOP Fellow who will be representing Clinton's 1996 presidential campaign at the event...